I will be attending the MARC Advisory Committee sessions at ALA
Midwinter as ARLIS's representative. The agenda for the meetings is
available at:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/mw2002_age.html
There are links from this URL to all the papers.
Some papers that contain issues that may be relevant to art information:
Discussion Paper 2002-DP07, Changes for UKMARC Format Alignment
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2002/2002-dp07.html
This paper proposes a field specifically for for descriptions of
bindings. Rare book and special collections catalogers in the UK have
been encoding binding information in the 563 field. Now that the UK is
adopting MARC 21 as their standard for new catalog records, they would
like this field defined for MARC21. Most rare book and special
collections catalogers in the United States use a general 500 note for
binding information; would you prefer a field specifically for bindings?
The same paper proposes a field for "fingerprint" notes. UKMARC
currently has a "Fingerprint Note" field (756) to assist the
identification of antiquarian books by recording information comprising
groups of characters taken from specified positions on specified pages
of the book, using the principles laid down in Fingerprints =
Empreintes = Impronte. Paris: Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des
Textes in association with the National Library of Scotland, 1984.>.
Example: $adete nkck$bvess lodo 3$cAnno Domini MDCXXXVI$d3$5UkCU
They would like the field defined for MARC 21, probably as a 5XX note.
Does anybody use this system to identify rare books? Are there
comparable schemes for identifying other types of material?
Discussion Paper 2002-DP03, Changes in FAST Subject Headings
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2002/2002-dp03.html
This paper suggests defining a new field in the bibliographical and
authority formats for chronological headings. FAST subject headings are
a subject vocabulary developed by OCLC primarily for cataloging web
resources. The terms are based on LCSH, but FAST minimizes
precoordination, so that an LCSH like Furniture--United
States--History--19th century is broken up into three separate headings,
Furniture--History (topical), 1800-1899 (chronological), and United
States (geographic). Headings like World War, 1914-1918 would be
converted to two headings: 1914-1918 (chronological) and World War,
1914-1918 (topical). Does this have any implications for art
information, which is so tied to time periods which may overlap
temporally and geographically, and which are currently assignable only
within a precoordinated string?
Proposal No. 2002-01, Definition of Subfield $u (URI) in field 670
(Source Data Found) in the MARC 21 Authority Format
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2002/2002-01.html
This paper proposes a new subfield in the authority format to record
URL's for sources that provide information about a heading. We are
increasingly dependant on web resources for informaton about artists,
galleries, etc. This proposal will define a specific subfield within the
670 which could serve as an electronic link to a URL cited as a source
(like the 856 field on the bibliographic record).
Let me know by Jan. 17 if you have any thoughts about these issues, or
anything raised in the other papers on the agenda.
Elizabeth O'Keefe
Director of Collection Information Systems
The Pierpont Morgan Library
29 East 36th Street
New York, NY 10016-3403
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